Democrats Versus America's Founding Documents

American Thinker.com ^ | July 3, 2021 | Jeff M. Lewis

[Kaslin]

Considering events of the past few weeks, it seems fitting to review what the Founders had to say in America’s core documents -- the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution – and then to compare those words with the public words and actions of our federal politicians. Of course, everyone is (or should be) familiar with these words from the Declaration:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed....” (Emphasis added)

In addition to that timeless wisdom, the Founders constructed and ratified the Constitution to limit the Government’s power. They also had the wisdom to define individual citizen’s inherent rights in the Bill of Rights. Without these first ten amendments, which effectively closed potential loopholes that the founders knew from experience the government would seek to exploit, some historical commentaries opine that the Constitution might not have been ratified.

Furthermore, it’s because of the Bill of Rights that the Constitution, and the power of We the People of the United States of America, quite likely would not have continued to exist as we have for nigh on two-hundred-forty-five years.

[Gene Eric]

Rats vs Constitution

[NonValueAdded]

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Recessional of the Sons of the American Revolution:

“Until we meet again, let us remember our obligations to our
forefathers who gave us our Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
an independent Supreme Court and a nation of free men.”

Dr. Benjamin Franklin, when asked if we had a republic or a monarchy, replied "A Republic, if you can keep it."
Were we ever as close to losing it as we are now?

[Bonemaker]

“Democrats Versus America’s Founding Documents...”

Democrats Versus America.

[Kaslin]

you said it.

[Adder]

Were we ever as close to losing it as we are now?

Yes...1933

Another dumblecrat travesty.

We lost a lot in the ensuing years.

[afchief]

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people”. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

- John Adams

[kearnyirish2]

Donald Trump at Mount Rushmore 7/3/20: ““Make no mistake. This left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.”

[USS Alaska]

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams

Our chickens...are coming home...to roost.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Obama was precisely what the founders were trying to prevent when they excluded the children of foreigners from being President with the natural born citizen clause.

One is only NATURALLY an American when one has only ONE nationality, ONE allegiance, ONE loyalty.
Born here of citizen parents.
That is the quality the founders were specifying.

BOTH parties abrogated the Constitution on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009.

[Jim W N]

Two questions for those Patriots among us who are ready to fight to restore our Free Constitutional Republic.

1) How many get that the Constitution CREATED the Federal Government (and the United States of America) and ANY AND ALL valid power of the Federal Government is derived from particular enumerated powers enumerated mostly in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, and if it is not particularly enumerated in the Constitution, it is not a valid power of the Federal Government? (Which is why 80+% of the federal government is unconstitutional and in tyranny. Many erroneously think that the feds power is legit if the Constitution doesn’t forbid it which brings up the next question.)

2) How many get that the first Ten Amendments are NOT a “Bill of Rights” because the Declaration of Independence which frames the Constitution declares man’s rights derive from God, not man, and the first Ten Amendments are a sampling of those powers the Constitution has not delegated to the feds? (Totalitarian governments around the world issue tons of “bills of rights” as though those rights are derived from man and his government.)

Amendments 9 and 10 explain this but few seem to care and the Delusional Lying Let has tried everything they can to blot out the effect if not the text of the 9th and 10th Amendments.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yes, but not so many people themselves embroiled in constant rancor and enmity.

Plus few had open hatred for this country.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Melian]

The founders had up close, personal experience with traitors and quislings. They tried to protect us—and if we followed the law and the Constitution to the letter, we’d be pretty well protected. Flouting the law is rampant today. Unequal application of justice further destroys their excellent roadmap for us. We must take real action and get involved at the local level.

Anyone got a link to that excellent piece about the price the Founders paid for speaking out?

[Jacquerie]

“If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.”

-James Madison

[Rummyfan]

The person who most clearly defines the Democrats' dour view of the Constitution came from Barack Obama when he was still Candidate Obama, a Senator from Illinois. As a Senator, he would have already taken the Oath of Office; as a proclaimed “Constitutional Scholar,” he had had a crystal-clear understanding of the limits the Constitution imposes on the government. Obama’s problem with the constitution was that he obviously regretted its constraints on government:

“Generally, the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you. But it doesn’t say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.”

Constitutional scholar?! Feh! Scholar of nothing and full of only himself.

[Pharmboy]

True enough. But the Founders did not count on a patient, calculating, well-funded, trans-generational pack of leftist hyenas interested only in their own power and subverting every single one of our institutions over the last 70 years.